John Trapp on Galatians 2:3

Verſe 3. I was compelled to be circumciſed] i. e. I would not yeeld he ſhould be: leſt I ſhould ſeem to countenance them that held circumciſion neceſſary to ſalvation. In the year of grace 1549 the Miniſters of Magdeburg did ſtoutly oppoſe them of Wittenberg and Leipſich, and ſet forth many books againſt them, becauſe they dealt deceitfully,Alſted: [illegible: 1 letter]bron. pag. 520. and by their Adiaphora, or things indifferent, as they called them, they paved a way to Popery. And this was our caſe till this late bleſſed Reformation. It was not without cauſe that Peter Martyr commended it to the care of Queen Elizabeth, That Church-governours endeavour not to carry the Ark of the Goſpel into England upon the cart of needleſſe Ceremonies.